when this happens, stretch your leg out in front of you and use the palm of your hand to pull the top of your foot toward your body. it helps ease the cramp. i deal with these too damn much and is the only way to stop them fast
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My friend, up your magnesium!
This is the way! I take soem daily and it's the only thing that's reliably controlled my cramping, helps me sleep better as well
it is at least partially hereditary, but i will look into it! my mom couldnt swim without wearing tennis shoes because her legs would seize up.
Oooh. Damn. I've heard of a more serious version, that has a name, but I can't remember it. Hopefully you haven't inherited something serious. I have terrible cramping issues, I wish I had known how much magnesium helps, it's essentially the conduit to which the electrical signals controlling your muscles ride around on. I have found magnesium glycenate to work best for me, there's heaps of varieties. I hope you find one that helps, crossing my fingers for you!
Those LMNT or other electrolyte mixes do wonders, almost instant relief.
Up your magnesium game.
Or salt.
Or potassium.
Or water.
It's usually all of the above. Also calcium. Electrolytes are fuel for your nervous system, with various uses all over the board. Missing most any of them can produce cramps in the basic sense.
Magnesium specifically is utilized for muscle relaxation. Potassium is used for muscle contraction.
Yes, but cramps can also be caused by a lack of electrolytes and dehydration.
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Or polonium.
0mg!
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Lift toes and feet, kick heels out as hard as you can. Hold.
Doesn't always stop it, but can help considerably if you start before it fully fires off.
I read this tip years ago in a similar social media comment on a similar meme.
It really works, this trick basically changed my life. Highly recommend.
With all muscle cramps. Do what feels counterintuitive.
The muscle contracts/tightens. Stretching it hurts more, but it is what must be done.
For when someone reading this has a hamstring cramp... You might wanna figure out that stretch ahead of time. It's a bit heftier than the calf muscle and puts up a better fight.
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Bro I just watched my calve during a cramp a few weeks ago. It was so gnarly, like legit rippling, like something else was under my skin.
I've never gotten a cramp in my life. I'm on 39's doorstep and I'm a guy. My wife has woken me up on a couple occasions with her Charley horses. I'm happy to see it's not just her.
If your electrolytes are balanced, you shouldn't get cramps. Cramping is caused by not having enough potassium, which is used by your nerves to signal relaxing muscles. Sodium is used to signal clenching. Too much sodium for the potassium and the signals get unbalanced and you can't relax that muscle.
Magnesium and calcium also play a role and deficiencies can result in cramping or tremors (like unsteady hands might just be from being low on Mg, Ca, or K).
So it seems like you've been eating well at least as far as electrolytes are concerned, especially if you can hold your hand out rock steady, regardless of whether your muscles are clenched or relaxed.
You shouldn't snoke electrolytes bro. Those are for the empathetic system.
Yeah, I think I'm just lucky, good genes. I eat fine, but I've also survived off bars and snacks in the desert for days, never had issues. Always drink my water though, love water.
Nowadays, I do eat (well, ingest) a banana every day, and that's the only kind of K I'm into anymore.
Yeah, when my own levels were low enough to get the occasional cramp, it never happened on a day I ate a banana.
Eat a whole turkey and see what happens. Glaze it, even
I'm curious why turkey, is it the salt content or something else that can lead you cramping?
I'm not gonna eat a whole turkey though, that's just crazy.
Then eat and orange and a bad of onion bagels. Geez, someone skipped Alchemy 101 in college...
I skipped a lot in college, that's for sure. Including the final four years.
I will do my best to test this hypothesis and report back.
It is theory
Who is Charlie and what does his horse have to do with anything?
Oh I hate that, but the only solution for me is to equally strongly point my foot towards my head.
YES flex that foot! Just grab it with your hands and dorsiflex it hard, and it resolves quickly.
Today I learned this is a common thing. I started getting these in the mornings after I started cycling a ton and really developed my calves. An excruciating reminder that I didn't hydrate well enough the day before.
When you are having a really big yawn and feel the bottom of your mouth tense up. Those are the absolute worst cramps. Especially when you're with someone else who thinks you're choking or having a seizure or something. And you can't tell them it's fine and it's just a cramp, since you can't open your mouth.
New fear unlocked, thanks
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Thanks for reminding me of this, I’m gonna be paranoid stretching next couple of times.
Make sure you get enough potassium, calcium, and magnesium, along with hydration.
Sodium, too, if you do a lot of home cooking that tastes bland.
Cut off your calves and eat them that's the only way God knows how to fuck in the digeridoos of turtle why the fuck a turtle I ain't fucked no turtle in three days, but that's a stretch of time to elaborate how Don Lemon returned me to sender
Are you an LLM with only a 10 token context window? Or doing that thing that humans do when their brain blood escapes its brain blood tube and becomes a brain blood pool or has trouble making it to all the brain cells because the brain blood tube is too full of non-brain blood things?
Either way, thanks for the moment of amusement I got trying to parse the combination of words you used in the order you used them.
Nah nrah, if you can't investigators I dont give af about speaks
The only cramps I ever get is period cramps I don’t understand random body parts cramping that seems like it shouldn’t be happening?
Are you still in your 20s?
You've never gotten a charley horse? It's not at all like a period cramp, very sudden and exquisitely painful, and quickly resolved.
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Immediately get out of bed and stand up straight, works faster than trying to flex\stretch it out
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It's been months since I had a leg cramp, but recently-ish i did have a tongue (between the chin and the neck) cramp which was pretty weird.
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